Charlie Teske, Evergreen’s first Dean of Arts and Humanities, discusses the institution’s founding and early history in this audio excerpt taken from a longer video interview available in the Evergreen Archives.
(2009) Length: 16:42
Produced by Aaron Meola for the Evergreen Visual History Archive

Drawing from the Landscape
Faculty and staff joined their colleagues and facilitators Marilyn Frasca, Larry Eickstaedt, and David Whitener on Squaxin Island for a 1994 summer institute sponsored by a grant from the PEW Charitable Trust. This visual documentation of the field study shows participants camped together for several days on the island, drawing, writing, [...]

Students Aaron Meola, Jana Bolotin and Jesse Callahan venture into the deepest recesses of the Evergreen Archives to capture a bit of Evergreen’s archivist Randy Stilson for posterity.
(2008) Length 2:53
Produced by Aaron Meola

History From the Evergreen Vaults was created for The Evergreen Visual History Collection in collaboration with KAOS Olympia’s Community radio station. Each of the four parts addresses a theme of the college’s history. Jesse Callahan, a 2009 Evergreen graduate wrote, produced, and hosted the show. Evergreen students contributed the instrumental background. Episode 1 [...]

History From the Evergreen Vaults was created for The Evergreen Visual History Collection in collaboration with KAOS Olympia’s Community radio station. Each of the four parts addresses a theme of the college’s history. Jesse Callahan, a 2009 Evergreen graduate wrote, produced, and hosted the show. Evergreen students contributed the instrumental background. Episode 2 [...]

History From the Evergreen Vaults was created for The Evergreen Visual History Collection in collaboration with KAOS Olympia’s Community radio station. Each of the four parts addresses a theme of the college’s history. Jesse Callahan, a 2009 Evergreen graduate wrote, produced, and hosted the show. Evergreen students contributed the instrumental background. Episode [...]

History From the Evergreen Vaults was created for The Evergreen Visual History Collection in collaboration with KAOS Olympia’s Community radio station. Each of the four parts addresses a theme of the college’s history. Jesse Callahan, a 2009 Evergreen graduate wrote, produced, and hosted the show. Evergreen students contributed the instrumental background. The [...]

Alumna Lynda Barry returned to Evergreen for a series of workshops based on her book, What It Is. On November 5, 2008 she spoke to an overflow crowd in the Experimental Theatre, talking about her experience as an Evergreen student, her life as an artist, and her method of writing (based in part on her [...]

This is a live, studio production of Sally Cloninger’s final 5th year review.  She combined a monologue about her work as a teacher and co-learner at Evergreen with clips from her own films and videos as well as program documentation of some of her “performative” lectures.  Included: an excerpt from a documentary that was commissioned [...]

A visual essay with voice over about faculty member, Susan Aurand’s experience teaching art and science in a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs at Evergreen. Originally produced as part of the EVHA Founding Institute in summer 2008, Susan performed this autobiographical and pedagogical piece at the Fall Symposium in 2008. She specifically explores [...]

An oral history of the Vancouver program (Vancouver, Washington) of The Evergreen State College, written and performed by past Director and Faculty Emeritus, Virginia (Jin) Darney. This interdisciplinary program flourished from 1976-1990. A number of faculty were assigned to this campus (including Bill Bruner, Justino Balderrama and Lucia Harrison) or rotated from Olympia into the [...]

A rare Super 8 film of a 1979 white water rafting trip by Evergreen women is juxtaposed with footage and commentary from a reunion 30 years later of most of the faculty and staff participants. Featured are: Sally Cloninger, Rita Cooper, Llyn De Danaan [Lynn Patterson], Betsy Diffendal, Joanne Jirovec, Susie Jones, Judy Lindlauf, Maxine [...]